2007 10Best Frozen, Lonely, and Mongrelly Merged Cars

Glen Messer, a Navy lieutenant, writes, “I wish I
could say it’s mud, but it’s not. More like raw sewage.”
The Humvee is stuck in Husseiniya, Iraq. Messer
was helping build a much-needed sewer network inthe town. What the Navy is doing on land, we dunno.

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Brian Prady says Hurricane Ivan washed this
fiberglass faux Ferrari from its garage in Gulf
Shores, Alabama, in September 2004. The
Alabama DOT simply shoved it to one side of theroad with the rest of the trash.

Alex Morency-Letto snapped this Chevy Celebrity in which his uncle, Sylvio, and a girlfriend were buried for 21 hours under six feet of snow in Lourdes-de-Blanc-Sablon, Québec. Sylvio attracted rescuers by gutting the seats for rods, which he then poked through the snow.

Phillip Thrapp , an exotic-car dealer in Ellenton, Florida, was a passenger when a customer took this 700-hp Cobra replica on a test drive, flight, and swim. “The customer fastened his seatbelt, looked down at the gear lever, and said, ‘So, I just move this into drive?’ And we launched. We hit the curb and went airborne, landed nose first in the grass, and then stopped in the creek.” Total elapsed time: three seconds.

Istvan Bognar saved the children but lost the Honda S2000, the Saab 9-5 wagon, and the garage when lightning hit his front yard in Greenville, South Carolina—twice in two minutes—and traveled up the sprinkler system and set the wall timer on fire.